Employability through Experiential Learning Course in Open Distance Learning Institution

Nenzhelele, Tshilidzi Eric

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p1602

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“…When designing the distance course, the educators should take into account this issue and permeate the studying with the vital element of employability. We approve the methods of acquiring employability skills through the distance learning described in modern research, where the results show a positive correlation between the marital status and employability skills, such as written communication, ability to work in teams, problem-solving skills, numeracy skills, and management skills (Nenzhelele 2014;Botha et al 2015). It proves that maturity and selfdirectedness towards employability are mostly inherent in self-determined graduates and professionals, who have enough motivation to attain the proper professional level.…”

Section: Theoretical Framementioning

confidence: 82%

“…The importance of blended education is nowadays overgrowing at universities as a successful means of organizing the learning process for those students who lack possibilities to attend classes Submitted August 11 th , 2020, accepted for publication September 9 th , 2020 regularly (Liashenko and Hnapovska 2019;Liashenko 2019). In this case, online learning appears to be an essential educational tool that has to be encouraging in professional issues as it mostly lacks live communication (Lim et al 2011;Nenzhelele 2014). That is, the main task of modern educators is to find the mechanisms which make online learning more enriching to the labor market requirements.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Esp Online Course as a Means of Enhancing Graduate Students’ Employability Opportunities - Case of Sumy State University

Liashenko

Hnapovska

2021

ESPEAP

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Along with providing plentiful job market opportunities, the ongoing growth of various technologies in a wide range of fields is currently creating a high level of graduates competitiveness. The issue of employability, which is the crucial concern of higher education institutions, is getting vital these days among employers, educators, researchers, and future professionals. This study aims to determine the mechanisms through which an ESP distance course can facilitate employability enhancement with graduate students. Although the idea of implementing distance learning in the professional training is not new, coherent research on how to make online tasks more enriching for future professional activity and thus resulting in enhanced employability has not been proposed so far. A survey conducted within the framework of the study reveals a correlation between critical thinking skills tasks as part of an ESP course and growing professional competence as an integrated component of employability. The data obtained have been verified by statistical analysis. Another investment in the employability field has been made through suggestions on how to design online tasks properly.

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Section: Theoretical Framementioning

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Esp Online Course as a Means of Enhancing Graduate Students’ Employability Opportunities - Case of Sumy State University

Liashenko

Hnapovska

2021

ESPEAP

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“…The following learning theories and conceptions are identified in promoting of competitiveness: 1) Experience Based Learning or Experiential learning [26][27][28] [33].…”

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Theoretical background for investigation and promotion of engineers competitiveness in education

Katane¹,

Baltusite²,

Katans³

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. Nowadays, there is a great demand for engineers in various fields of specialization. This brings up the question whether it is determined by the fact that, due to various reasons, higher education institutions do not train a sufficient number of the demanded specialists, or the reason is that the specialists (engineers) trained are not able to compete, as they do not meet the demands of the society, job market (including the employers) and the professional environment. This issue determines the topicality of theoretical and empirical investigation of the competitiveness of engineers. The aim of this report is to provide a theoretical basis for the competitiveness of engineers and the possibilities of its promotion in terms of various aspects. The results of theoretical researches confirm that pedagogical and psychological science validates the competitiveness of engineers in terms of three aspects: the competitiveness of a personality; the competitiveness of a specialist in the broad sense of the term; the competitiveness of an engineer with the focus on the engineering specialization in the engineering science. It is not only important to study the competitiveness of an engineer, but also to provide a scientific background for possible methods, which could be used to promote the competitiveness during the process of education and professional growth based on modern learning theories and concepts.Keywords: engineer competitiveness, marketability, employability, competence. IntroductionContemporary social sciences, including pedagogy and psychology, carry out researches in the field of competitiveness. The topicality of such studies is determined by the inconsistency of globalization and globalization processes and their influence over sustainable development and competitiveness of the society. The more competitive each member of the society is, the more competitive is the society as such. The same can be told about the competitiveness of any enterprise. The fact that a person is self-developing both as a personality and as a specialist along with the environment of his or her life and professional activity means that this interaction is mutual, i.e., not only the competitiveness of each society or enterprise is determined by the competitiveness of each individual person, but the constantly changing social and professional environment is also impacting the competitive ability of each person substantially.Nowadays, there is a great demand for engineers in various fields of specialization. This brings up the question whether it is determined by the fact that due to various reasons higher education institutions do not train a sufficient number of demanded specialists, or the reason is that the specialists (engineers) trained are not able to compete, as they do not meet the demands of the society, job market (including the employers) and the professional environment. This issue determines the topicality of theoretical and empirical investigation of the competitiveness of engineers.The aim of this article is...

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“…Moreover, the research framework was initially established based on Theory Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 2011). However, the research framework was further expended (Nenzhelele, 2014). Although, attitude, subjective norm, and selfefficacy have a positive influence on student entrepreneur intention (Pedrini et al, 2017).…”

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy among undergraduates

Balder¹

2020

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The Malaysian government recognized the importance of entrepreneurship's role in developing innovation and knowledge as new engines that could help the Malaysia economy to grow. Entrepreneurship education has become popular for developing economies and creating job opportunities in Malaysia. Entrepreneurship contributes significantly to economic growth; it increases job opportunities, nurtures innovation, and organization productivity. Most of the higher education institutions (HEI) in Malaysia are also engaged with the numerous entrepreneurship development programs and training for small business development. Entrepreneurship programs in HEI could also promote an entrepreneurial culture; for the student who is interested in entrepreneurial activities. This research aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneurship education, attitude, self-efficacy, subjective-norm on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduates in private universities in Kuala Lumpur. Likewise, this research has adopted Theory Planned behavior (TPB) as an underpinning theory for its research framework. Based on the distributed questionnaires, the research only received 226 responses. However, only 216 questionnaires were usable for further analysis. The research has used SPSS and Smart-Pls programs to analyze its data. The research found that there is a positive and significant relationship between entrepreneurship education and (attitude, subjective-norm self-efficacy). The research expands the current body of knowledge on TPB from the landscape of undergraduates' students in private universities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The research ends with some avenues for future research.

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Employability through Experiential Learning Course in Open Distance Learning Institution

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Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Esp Online Course as a Means of Enhancing Graduate Students’ Employability Opportunities - Case of Sumy State University

Esp Online Course as a Means of Enhancing Graduate Students’ Employability Opportunities - Case of Sumy State University

Theoretical background for investigation and promotion of engineers competitiveness in education

The impact of entrepreneurship education on attitude, subjective norm and self-efficacy among undergraduates

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